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Mar 3, 2015

STRIKE * Brazil: Truck strike diminishes

* Paranagua: Soy stocks running low

 -- Some truck drivers in Brazil continued blocking roads on Tuesday, slowing grains deliveries to southern ports, even as adherence to the strike diminished and a key highway in top soy state Mato Grosso opened... Nationwide, there were 18 roadblocks over rising freight costs by the end of the day on Monday, well below peaks of more than 100 a week ago, federal highway police said... With the two-week-old protests concentrated in the south, however, the situation at No. 2 soy exporting port Paranagua remained critical, a spokesman said... On Monday just over 700 trucks arrived at the port, less than half the normal amount for this time of the year. With stocks running out, the port can only guarantee exports of soybeans and soymeal through Wednesday, the spokesman said... Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, on Monday signed into law a new truckers' bill to lower toll costs, waive fines for overweight trucks charged in the past two years and build more rest stops on federal highways... Some drivers said the bill did not address their main demands to lower diesel fuel prices and raise their payments to cover costs... (Photo: The industrial action has slowed down exports of soy beans in the midst of harvest: 600 trucks instead of the usual 3.000 are reaching Paranagua)  - Sao Paulo, SP, USA -Reuters, by Caroline Stauffer / Gustavo Bonato & Marcelo Teixeira / Jeffrey Benkoe - Mar 3, 2015

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